FlickType Keyboard for Apple Watch

Drafting messages on an Apple Watch can sometimes be an exercise in frustration. Sometimes you don’t want to scribble out individual letters at a time, or speak out loud into your wrist (especially when it would be awkward to).

FlickType Keyboard is an app that brings full keyboard functionality to the Apple Watch. It gives you a QWERTY layout to type with, and given that you’re tapping on such a small screen, the developers smartly added an algorithm that pretty accurately detects what you’re trying to type based on where you’re touching.

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If it gives you the wrong word, simply flick up or down (or scroll with the Digital Crown) to change it. Same goes for punctuation marks — double-tap the spacebar (or flick right twice) to get a period, which you can then change into other punctuation or an emoji.

Other gestures include flicking left to delete, flicking right to add a space, tapping with two fingers to capitalize the next word, and double-tapping with two fingers to get access to numbers and other symbols.

You can quickly see how it works here:

They’ve also got some neat accessibility features worth noting, like the ability to have FlickType speak what you’re typing back to you while also displaying it as large, high-contrast text above the keyboard. You can also hide the keyboard and replace it with solid bars, where the middle/home row is a bright white bar between the top and bottom gray bars.

FlickType Keyboard is just $2 on the App Store so there’s no excuse not to give it a try.